The Stone
Alexander Dang
DE · 2008 · DV · 18 min
Festival 2009
Two friends and a magic stone. The nightmare begins and evil is unleashed.
Die neue Brille
Klasse 5
DE · 2009 · DVD · 6 min
Vanessa doesn’t feel comfortable in her new class.
Sprung ins kalte Wasser
Katharina Kunz
DE · 2008 · DV · 9 min
A 16-year-old girl searching for personal happiness.
Inselaffen - Eine Kinomär
Christoph Dobbitsch
DE · 2008 · DV · 20 min
Sandra lives on an island and wants to screen her own film.
Auf der Suche nach Dada - Dadaismus 2008
Johannes Jancke
DE · 2008 · DVD · 8 min
Two stories about the desire for something special and the joy of finally finding what you were looking for.
Im Herbst kein Lied
Karsten Prühl
DE · 2008 · 22 min
Thuringia, autumn 1944. Alfred and Ludwig, the forester’s sons, both vie for their father’s favour. One day they watch him in the forest hunting down American pilots together with the German Territorial Army.
Persona
Andreas Kessler
DE · 2009 · DV · 9 min
An individual is suddenly confronted with the fact that he doesn’t fit into society.
Stiller Frühling
Nico Sommer
DE · 2008 · DV · 45 min
Sebastian is 21 and has never been together with a woman. His patience wears thin.
KAIROS
Christopher Schlierf, Roland Kraus
DE · 2008 · DVD · 15 min
The FBI finds nine dead bodies of mafia members. But who was the killer? A homage to Quentin Tarantino.
Das Interview
Fabian Schmalenbach
DE · 2009 · DVD · 16 min
The wily ways of boulevard journalisms that oversteps the mark of humane behaviour in favour of good film footage.
Die Folgen der Schwangerschaft einer Kampfrichterin
Tobias Wiemann
DE · 2008 · DVD · 22 min
The realm of PE teacher Schwarzmann who never made it to the Olympic Games.
Herr Sofa mag heiraten
Samuel Lechner
DE · 2008 · DVD · 4 min
Drawings of Mr Sofa who wants to marry a flower.
Wenn ein Tag kein Sonntag wär
Franziska Junge
DE · 2008 · Beta-SP · 20 min
A film collage based on the novel 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus.
Kopf
Martin Jehle
DE · 2008 · 16mm · 6 min
The painting 'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper: the story unfolds back to front about throwing a coin and the ensuing consequences for a couple.
Die neue Waschmaschine
Winfried Bellmann
DE · 2008 · DVD · 7 min
Two hamsters looking for the ultimate running wheel.
Märchenkönig
Gemeinschaftsarbeit AG Video
DE · 2009 · DVD · 5 min
Based on a song by the outstanding children’s band 'Donikkl und die Weißwürschtel'.
Birdstrike
Johannes Schiehsl
DE · 2008 · Beta-SP · 6 min
When aeroplanes collide with birds, the birds usually come off worst. But what happens when the plane is smaller than the bird?
Brei Brumm Bumm
Elisa Klement
DE · 2008 · DV · 8 min
What should you do when you have to finish your plate although you’re full? Toni finds a way...
Clint
Philipp Scholz
DE · 2008 · Beta-SP · 4 min
Clint and Mia are happily in love, yet their relationship seems to be on the borderline, in every sense of the word.
Zugfahrt zur Oma
Vico Ludwig
DE · 2009 · DVD · 3 min
An animated film with a wooden train and 850 individual photos.
Die Arktis schmilzt
Pia Genz
DE · 2009 · DVD · 4 min
Two polar bears and a walrus leave their homeland. Rats as protagonists on the subject of climate change.
Aus der Goldenen Zeit
Arto Sebastian Buhmann
DE · 2008 · DVD · 5 min
A parable of man and his yearning for freedom and power.
Polar
Michael Koch
DE · 2008 · 35mm · 29 min
18-year-old Luis visits his father for the first time. He unexpectedly meets his father’s new family and causes conflict.
Schattenseite
Rico Chibac
DE · 2008 · DV · 5 min
A socially critical music video. This is my first self-made film.
Nein und doch nicht da
Levin Hübner
DE · 2009 · DV · 12 min
Benjamin is eleven years old, wears red stand-up collars, likes eating fish-fingers with mashed potatoes, plays with his remote-control cars and has parents that are getting divorced.
Gone
Sven Bunge
DE · 2008 · DVD · 12 min
The camera of an amateur film-maker, found by chance, shows snippets of his life.
DERJUNG
Valentin Gagarin, Robert Wincierz
DE · 2008 · DV · 2 min
A stormy night, the usual madness prevails.
Rikkomus
Theo Solnik
DE · 2008 · 16mm · 23 min
Love, addiction and jealousy... Finnish tango singer Helena suddenly sees a way to make use of her husband’s long absence to run free in lust and longing she has never experienced before.
Der Neue
Tobias Bentlage
DE · 2008 · DVD · 26 min
Twelve-year-old Markus lives alone with his mother and gets beaten up and bullied at his new school.
MacBook Defense
Helene Lamprecht, Richard Lamprecht
DE · 2008 · DV · 3 min
What would happen if the expensive computer could protect itself?
Mittendrin
Carina Neubohn
DE · 2009 · 9 min
Wanda has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for several years. Her scatterbrained flatmate and best friend Mike tries to make everyday life as pleasant as possible for her.
Passengers of the Night
Rani Ravenina Prawiradinata, Nina Martin
DE · 2009 · DV · 16 min
The trigger for this film was an illness where dreaming made it possible to an escape into another dimension.
Ist das das Deutschland
Daniel Kassis
DE · 2008 · VHS · 3 min
I’m Daniel Kassis and this is the video that will be the talk of the town in Germany...!!!
The Reason Why
Karsten Kirchhoff
DE · 2009 · DVD · 12 min
A journalist loses her boyfriend when he gets killed on duty as a policeman in an anti-terror raid.
Danny Crash
Roza Ates, Fatma Cetin, Danira Drndar, Hildi Alina Oehler
DE · 2008 · DV · 13 min
Danny is the school’s coolest hip hopper, but there’s a different Danny behind the façade. Created in a documentary film workshop.
Nichts zu danken
Moritz Menacher
The life of a simple man and the preparations for a bank robbery. A mixture of hand-drawn pictures, photos and film material.
Hybris
Florian Schnell, Patrick Müller, Martin Minsel
In a world full of cripples, a beggar steals the artificial leg of another beggar.
Das Raphuhn
Paddy, Jonas, Erik, Henning, Tomke, Maren, René, Vanessa, Jannick
DE · 2008 · DVD · 6 min
What happens when you get various beauty generators mixed up...
Such Dir Freunde!
Gruppenarbeit
DE · 2008 · DV · 11 min
14-year-old Dilara is in love with Rogério who is the same age as her. Her friend Ebru is jealous. She steals marihuana from a petty dealer, plants it on Dilara and informs the police...
Graffitis
DE · 2008 · DV · 7 min
A flying visit to the graffiti underground...
Pädagogische Spiel ficken dein Gehirn
Aaron Schmidt
DE · 2009 · DV · 8 min
A weekend seminar in the forest starts as a harmless and supposedly boring game of murder but gradually turns into bloodthirsty reality.
The Golden Foretaste of Heaven
Richard Wilhelmer
DE · 2009 · 19 min
The story of a sinking world, a president on the run, and a prophecy to save the planet. The film was made in a tiny blue-box room with high resolution photo collages.
Blessed
Elaine Niessner
DE · 2009 · DV · 2 min
A stop-motion film with real people.
Die Zeichenblockkrieger - Der Film
Sebastian Ganschow
Computer animated notepad warriors live their adventures.
vierzig.grad.fieber
Tim Bosse
DE · 2009 · DVD · 33 min
The news of his wife’s deadly illness makes Tom doubt the affair he is having with his boss’s assistant at a most inconvenient time.
Scissu
Tom Bewilogua
DE · 2009 · 16mm · 27 min
The chronologically ripped apart story of a lonely policeman and a drug-addicted couple.
ZIRRUSSOMMER
Markus Kaatsch
DE · 2008 · DV · 25 min
14-year-old MIRINDA stops RICHARD from committing suicide. Mother-to-be KATRIN has fallen in love with her slightly brusque neighbour JESSICA, and shares her bed with not only her but also with her young new friend AUGUST.
Geschlossene Anstalt
Alina Becker, Paul Ness
Gangster rap in a different style.
Ein Leben in Gegensätzen
Kathrin Beck, Jiajia Tian
DE · 2009 · DVD · 20 min
Li Jian lives in Shanghai and lives for the old traditions of Peking opera. Besides his strenuous job as a doctor, he spends every minute of his free time rehearsing his role.
Abgefahr'n
Marius Heil, Christopher Nussbaumer
People are transported into new surroundings by green screen and vehicles made to move through stop motion.
Drehmoment
Lino Marius Samide
DE · 2008 · DVD · 9 min
What does courage mean? Expectation and reality.
Auntie's Children
Lisa Leiding
DE · 2009 · DVD · 29 min
Day-to-say life in a children’s home in Rajasthan, India. The film was made in the last three weeks of my stay, working there as a volunteer for several months.
kill or be killed
Ferry Weiss
When Günther answers the phone at his girlfriend’s place, he suddenly finds his wife Tanja on the other end of the line. She doesn’t recognize his voice and thinks she’s talking to a contract killer.
Dr.
Nick Böse
A man is sitting on the toilet. He asks God lots of questions and philosophizes about life.
Der kurze Moment
Jan Olaf Krems
DE · 2009 · DVD · 8 min
Robert has lost everything: his child, his wife, his will to life. He decides to die.
Das letzte Einhorn
Sonja Schneider
DE · 2009 · DVD · 2 min
An overweight, ice cream devouring unicorn is lazily sitting in front of the telly. After lethargically watching a film for a while, it finds out that it’s not the last of its kind after all...
Urs
Moritz Mayerhofer
DE · 2009 · 35mm · 10 min
Urs has been looking after his old mother for many years. But now he undertakes a dangerous journey with her, and carries her up a mountain to find a better future for both of them. But his mother doesn’t want to leave her home... For almost three years I drew thousands of mountains, characters and storyboards.
Schwitze
Nicolas Steiner
DE · 2008 · 35mm · 8 min
Beat and Toni are sweating reality out of their bodies in the sauna. The cuckoo sets the pace. And Beat lays an egg, or so it seems... Created as part of a degree course. Brief: one day of filming, two protagonists.
Nur eine Nacht
Matthias Krumrey
DE · 2009 · DV · 18 min
Chris and Tobi are looking for a special kick and break into an empty flat. But their amorous adventure comes to an abrupt end.
Try a little tenderness
Benjamin Teske
DE · 2008 · 12 min
The best years of old Wolfgang’s life are over. He sits alone in a bar, waiting for a beautiful female stranger (Cosima Shiva Hagen)... A touching story about Beethoven, chewing gum, love and regret.
Lassallestrasse 19
Lukas Thiele
DE · 2009 · DVD · 10 min
Three students are trying to find a new flatmate. They have high expectations. The ideal flatmate is supposed to be perfectly normal; just like them.
le parole
Markus Siebler
A couple find each other in the coldness of their room...
Spieglein an der Wand
The bloody attempt to hide a pimple.
L'apétit
Raffael Firmbach, Felix Seeburger
Makes you want to take a bite. You’re in for a surprise!
Kleine Wölfe
Justin Peach
DE · 2009 · 48 min
My film is based on direct cinema. No narrator, no music, no stage directions. I wanted to understand the everyday life of children who live on the streets of Kathmandu. The chroniclers are the kids themselves.
OstKüstenEcke
Julia Kaussow, Jana Waterstradt
A documentary about neo-Nazis.
Bad day
Virginia Cornelissen, Leonie Streicher
DE · 2009 · DV · 6 min
When your girlfriend cheats on you... That’s what you call a bad day – high-speed camera work in black and white.
Alles glitzert, alles schreit
Aron Lesnik
Photographer Anna’s self-chosen solitude prevents any interpersonal contact.
MENSCH
Nico Sanft
DE · 2009 · DV · 4 min
We accompany a man in his day-to-day life dominated by work, food and sleep.
Ralf
Helge Brumme
DE · 2008 · DV · 10 min
Ralf drops out of studying 'Classical Guitar' and reflects on his life so far. A documentation of an afternoon.
Zugzwang
Adrian Copitzky
DE · 2008 · DVD · 18 min
Independently of each other, two men grow up in a dark cellar, not knowing where they are. A mysterious phone call forces them to choose...
kreislaufen
Sarah Brömmel
DE · 2009 · Blu-ray · 30 min
A story about something old and treasured, and longing for something new.
Student Hunter
Colin Wernicke, Julian van Dieken
Animal scientist and ethologist Erwin Stevensen explores life in the big city.
Franzis Ballon
Henriette Tornow
DE · 2009 · DV · 11 min
A little girl can’t cope with her parents’ divorce and releases a balloon into the sky with a letter to her mother.
Esma
Teamarbeit
DE · 2009 · DVD · 11 min
Esma is Muslim and wants to tell her class about religious freedom. But a dispute breaks out and Esma runs away.
Amoklove
Julia C. Kaiser
DE · 2008 · 9 min
A magical moment between two people on the Underground.
Das verlorene Paradies
Dieter Scholz
Two cartoons about how the environment is being destroyed.
SunnyRose
Kai Sitter
DE · 2009 · DVD · 25 min
Dennis gets to know Sonja in a chat room. When they meet at the cinema for the first time, Dennis is shocked to find out Sonja is in a wheelchair.
Die Ausweglosigkeit der Liebe
Meike in a mad rush through her life.
Reform
Joana Stamer
In this film I bid farewell to a time in my life.
Gruen ist doof?
Albert und Dogus
A plasticine modelling animation about a frog as an outsider.
Ungehört
Philip Diekmann, David Mahlfeld
DE · 2009 · 16mm · 4 min
The story of a boy whose problems were overlooked by everyone.
51 Euro
Enkelejd Luca, Marco Eisenbarth
Sefu Okpara has been living in Frankfurt as an immigrant from Zimbabwe for eight years and will soon be deported. He is trying to avoid this at all costs.
Glioblastom
Axel Ranisch, Tanja Bubbel
DE · 2008 · 16mm · 43 min
The mad story of stuntwoman Steffi who accidentally kills 23 goldfish in an exhibition of modern art.
Das erste Mal
Axel Ranisch
DE · 2008 · 16mm · 4 min
The film is a declaration of love to my former music teacher and the protagonist in this movie, Ulfert Bandur.
Allein im Wald
Farina Asmuß
DE · 2009 · DV · 5 min
Three friends – Sofie, Emma and Caro – finally want some peace and quiet and look for a place in the forest where they can set up their tent.
Der Untergang
Gemeinschaftsarbeit Klasse 7c
The polar bears are worried about their icy landscape. An animated film about climate protection.
Regenbogenengel
Anna Kasten
DE · 2008 · 35mm · 7 min
A little boy tells the story of his big brother who is about to commit suicide: the story of the Rainbow Angel.
FORTUNA
Felix von Seefranz
DE · 2009 · 15 min
A thriller about obligation, violence and justice.
Asmus
Moritz Walker
DE · 2008 · DVD · 28 min
Asmus lives in his own world full of soap bubbles, ringing alarm clocks and with Anna.
VENI, VIDI, VICI!
Johannes Laidler
DE · 2009 · DVD · 7 min
A boy has a spell of bad luck, putting many obstacles in his way while chasing a petty criminal.
Der Sprung
Johannes Enslin u. a.
A girl looking for a new sense of orientation.
Printed Word
Karsten Kaiser
DE · 2009 · 3 min
A stop-motion film. The photos were taken with a reflex camera.
Allein
Niklas Martensen, Jan Pörksen, Philipp Jahnke
DE · 2008 · DVD · 1 min
A boy dies in a car crash and returns to his family as a ghost.
Birdee
Nhat Phong Tran
DE · 2008 · DVD · 2 min
Birds against machines. Birdee loves beautiful and expensive cars. The better the car, the bigger his hunting instinct for cars.
Bedtime Stories
Inna Knaus
DE · 2009 · DV · 3 min
Another affair in Raupe235's life. What’s left the morning after? The hobby.
Point Of View
Jonas Brandau, Nils Strüven
Sophie and Ralph play in a documentary.
A Christmas Carol
Orlando Boeck
DE · 2009 · DVD · 15 min
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three ghosts one night.
Dienstag
Richard Lamprecht
The film is an Easter present for our parents.
Egotrip
Johanna Ziesemer, Anna Barnick
A young man is confronted with himself in a way he finds shocking...
Jussom City Blues
David Müller, Holger Will
A film noir parody of private detective Connor O’Malley, his goldfish Joey and the latest job.
B96
Josephine Frydetzki
DE · 2009 · 35mm · 17 min
After German reunification: a village road in Brandenburg, depicting the rift between poor and rich. This is where Vincent and Steve met for the first time. After a night of drinking, they are about to leave for the airport, when a serious misunderstanding crops up.
Recording
Ralph Andrykowski, Martin Holst
A mobile phone’s view of a perfectly normal day.
Hundesöhne
Lena Liberta
DE · 2008 · 15 min
Juri is just ten years old but already the man in the house. He does the housework, repairs and cares lovingly for his sad mother and his little brother Jan. He fights everybody, who dares hurting his family. A small boy's answer to the helplessness of the adults.
Ruhe im Kopf
Pari El-Qalqili
DE · 2008 · DigiBeta · 15 min
They sit, lay and stand around - waiting. For what ? Asylum seekers living in the shelter in everyday situations.
